Sorry to have to put you though
a bit of a diversion to send me an email however the amount of junk mail or
"spam" (technically defined as "unsolicited commercial emails" or UCE) I receive
as a result of having this website has increased to the point that I am forced
to provide indirect access to the email
address for the site. I provide this website at my own expense however there are those
that exploit my generosity by hijacking my email address and using it for
their own purposes ~ generally the sending of spam and malicious viruses, worms,
and trojan scrips. If you'd like a link to see who the worst spammers are
on the planet then please visit
http://www.spamhaus.org/

The host computers for my website filter my
incoming
email messages for spam but this is a low level parsing. After this
initial review I still receive literally hundreds of spam messages a
day. My personal second level of defense starts with
my computer where I have programs that not only filter the spam but also filter
incoming internet communications for viruses, spyware, and other attacks. While my
anti-spam software filters out even more messages some get through.

My email program also includes
the ability to filter spam and even with this third layer of defense I still get a dozen or more
spam messages in my IN email basket every day. What is worse is that my
email address is used by others as a way to send spam making it look as though I
created the message! Unfortunately the spamer lobbyists and freedom of
speech organizations have greatly slowed any national "do not spam" listing or
similar legislation to stem the increasing amount of unwanted spam.

One of the ways email addresses can be
"harvested" from websites is through the use of "spider" or "crawler" programs
often known as "spambots". These programs systematically visit internet
websites and search every page of the site for anything that resembles an email
address. For simplicity all email address take the form of "name@host".
Whenever the spambot finds text on a website that fits the format of an email
address it harvests the address for the owner of the spambot software.
That email address is now available to not only send spam to that email address but to use as an
email
source for sending spam.

Since I want to hear from web
site visitors I must include
an email address. However, in so doing I provide spamers access to my email
IN box and email address. The recommended way to address the problem is to
provide instructions as to how to construct an email address and not to provide
the email address directly. With this in mind you can contact me using one
of the two following methods.

If you have Java-scripting
enabled on your computer, there is a way that I can encode my email address so
that the spambots are less likely to find it easily but you still have the
address available to simply click on it. By clicking on my email address
shown below it will be automatically placed in the TO: location of your email
program. Note that the email
address below will execute a Java script (a short, safe program that runs on your
computer) and thus requires that your computer have Java scripting permitted.
This link will not work if for security reasons you have Java scripting not
permitted on your computer.

If you don't have Javascript enabled for security reasons please follow these directions to
create my email address in your email program. All email addresses are of the form 1 @ 2.3 . For my email address the 2
and 3 are the name of this website. Thus "2" is equal to "stanleymotorcarriage"
while "3" is "com".
The 1 is "Model735". Thus if you take "1", add the "at" sign (@), and
then add "2" after the "at" sign followed by a period (.)
and finally "3" you'll have my email address
(no spaces in the email address)!

To insure that your email
message receives prompt attention please start the subject line with "Website
Comment". I sort emails by subject and make a point of responding to
anyone who is writing regarding my website. I also have my security
software set to discard any emails using the email address above that do not
also have "Website Comment" in the subject line.

SPECIAL NOTE: On October 1,
2006 I deleted the old stanley735 email address that I had been using. The
spam had grown to 25+ emails per day and I'd had enough so I've changed the
address to what is shown above. Again, thanks in advance for your
understanding.

Thank you for your
understanding and most of all your cooperation! If you'd like to know the current status of governmental
efforts to stem the constantly increasing amounts of spam and the use of private
individual's email addresses to send unsolicited spam then visit the Federal
Trade Commission's website: http://www.ftc.gov/spam/